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Recently, I did a post on productivity tips for Microsoft Word. In addition to tips and keyboard shortcuts, there are also a lot of useful add-ins you can use with Word. They’re especially helpful for tasks such as managing tables, checking to make sure that links in your document are good, and more. Here are five, good, free examples.

Table Template Manager, from AbleBits, is ideal for the Word user who creates a lot of tables in Word, and reuses them. It’s a free download, and lets you save the formatting for tables you like and will use again, and manage a collection of tables.

Microsoft’s own International Character Toolbar is very handy if you’re using Word 2003. With one click, you can insert characters from all around the globe in your documents, and open toolbars specific to several languages concurrently.

For Office 2007 users, Microsoft’s Save As PDF or XPS is good for allowing you to easily save as PDF or XPS for all the applications in the suite, including Word.

If you work with letterhead a lot, Letterhead System is a Word add-in that automates the self-updating of letters and letterhead. You can use it to manage letterhead-based Word documents so that they share common attributes.

While many people are used to importing from Excel to include mathematical components in Word documents, Microsoft offers a Word 2007 add-in called Microsoft Math that does sophisticated graphing, lets you solve for variables, plot functions, and more. You can plot visual elements in either 2-D or 3-D with it.

Do you know of any good Word add-ins?